Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1918 — Over Seas for Freedom. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Over Seas for Freedom.

LET us be glad together that the passionate love at freedom that made the Pilgrim Fathers set sail In fragile ships to brave the unknown terrors of the Inhospitable New England coast is driving us back over the seas in dreadnaughts to face the known horrors of modern warfare. " When that spirit dies there can be no more thanksgiving In America. As long as this spirit lives it is always Thanksgiving day, whatever happens, or whatever we may have or may not have for dinner. Let us give thanks that years of prosperity and fatness, years of peace and security, have not served to make us entirely forgot that unless we love freedom more than life, we are already as one dead; unless we know the difference between real peace and selfish security, we are already a conquered people. Let us give thanks for our strength, our wealth and our opportunities garnered under the protection of even a dawning democracy, and for the chance to pour them out without stint for the spread of democracy to every corner of our world.

ANNE LEWIS PIERCE.